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| Sigüés municipality: Tiermas | |||
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| Autonomous Community : |
 Aragon
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| Province : | Zaragoza | ||
| Comarca : | Jacetania | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 7 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 580 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 3 (2011) INE | ||
| Area code: | 50245000400 | ||
Tiermas is a village in the foothills of the Pyrenees on a variant of the Camino de Santiago . It is located on the banks of the Aragón and the Yesa dam that it formed . Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Sigüés in the province of Zaragoza in the autonomous community of Aragon .
The village got its name from the baths that were created here by the Romans at the sulphurous springs (district Los Baños , Lage ). The springs gush at a temperature of 35 ° C , but today they are mostly below the water level of the Yesa dam. Only when the water is low (September to January, at most until the snow melts) the springs can be used again by those who enjoy bathing. The variant of the Camino Aragonés , which runs past the site and follows its historical course, can only be climbed when the water level of the reservoir is low.
With the rising water, in addition to the springs, the more fertile soils and the lower part of the village were flooded. The residents moved - compensated but deprived of their livelihood - in the surrounding cities. Millán Bravo describes in his pilgrim guide the last inhabitant of the place (end of 1992) - the almost eighty-year-old Bartolomé Torres Orduña, who had difficulty remembering his date of birth in conversation. Today, some houses in the upper village have been restored as Casas Rurales for rural tourism. From 2007 the Spanish statistical office INE shows a settlement of the place, currently (status: 2011) 3 inhabitants live in Tiermas.
literature
- Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
- Cordula Rabe: Spanish Way of St. James. From the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. All stages - with variants and height profiles. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7633-4330-0 ( Rother hiking guide ).
Web links
- Pueblos deshabitados (Spanish, many photos)
